Nice to see Nick Herbert MP entertaining the rough trade of Stonewall for dinner, Lynne Jones entertaining the BBC for breakfast, Sadiq Kahn hosting the Fabians Xmas dinner whilst also hosting Islamic Relief, Ptere Kilfoye seems VERY keen on having the Police to dinner, Khalid Mahmood appears to work for the Pakistan tourist Board mostly, Michael Mates has some VERY dodgy connections, Tony McNulty appears to have converted to Hinduism and Alun Michael is now a somali.

Moving onwards, what the hell goes with andrew Mitchell and his "one nation" dinners every week, Elliot "Guilty" Morley seems to love Globe UK (climate change stuff), Terry Rooney inviting the Mormons, is there anyone Barry Sheerman hasn't entertained? Gisela Stuart reminds herself of her roots by inviting the German embassy over every two weeks, Keith Vaz puts his feet up and entertains the whole of India-twice, and robert Walter seems to have turned Japanese. Lady winterton obvioulsy has her hair done for free as well,

Greater minds than mine will pull this report apart. Hopefully we'll get the suicides they promised

The Parliamentary advisory council on transport safety (PACTS) sounded impressive till we found it was nothing more than a lobby group made up of insurance companies,speed camera manufacturers and such like, all of whom have a vested interest in the Road safety industry (more points higher premiums).My voluntary organization ‘The Association of British Drivers’ which is a member of the committee and the only outfit speaking up for ordinary drivers, has been ridiculed by the ‘PACTS’ chief executive.I wouldn’t mind but the ABD pays ‘PACTS’ £400 a year to be a member, only to be ignored and ridiculed.I understand you can pay more to be a member if you like.That would explain a lot.

PACTS Political connections.Chairman-Barry Sheerman MPCo Chair-Peter Bottomly MP,Louise Ellman MP.Vice Chair-Viscount Simon,Lord Bradshaw.Secretary-Barry Sheerman MP.One of the above would have to book a commitee room on behalf of PACTS where it can hold its meetings three times a year.Even though PACTS has a charitable status you can bet your balls to a barndance the executive are on a good wage.I couldn't say if the above politicians have a vested intrest in the road safety industry but they must know that the current Lobby system is open to abuse.

Wonder if the rule still applies to Right Dishonourable Persons booking dining rooms :

"that it is acceptable for these facilities to be used for party political functions or for lobbying purposes, but not for any purpose involving direct commercial gain or as an inducement to recruit new members of outside organisations or non-parliamentary associations".

I actually arranged one of the events in among that list and I can tell you that our constituency MP didn't make a bean from it.The MP gets the room for free, and offers the room to an organisation (us lot!). That organisation then needs to pay for the food - at around £30 per head (it depends on the numbers)- the money goes to the Palace rather than the Government.Our event cost £3000 or so to run, and was paid for by the private businesses which went to it - its possible our MP might have got a free glass of wine out of it!

Sorry to piss on your parade, but facts can be useful in a situation like this!

Of course, I fully expect this comment to be deleted or you to suggest it was written by a spaz or whatever - but I'm just like you, a voter who hates MP's!

Quercus:Are you sure you didn't click on 'ABD' (arsehole bandits and dick)from your list of favourits?The Association of British Drivers is a legit outfit of volunteers(rare these days)who punch above their weight in the press and elswhere.The No10 anti road charging petition which reached 1.8million was started by ABD member Peter Roberts.Shaun Corker another ABD bloke was right at the fore in getting the Manchester congestion charge booted out.Paul Smith r.i.p ABD member and founder of 'Safespeed'was always in the papers.In fact almost as much as the taxpayers alliance.To my knowledge none of the above owned a bicycle.

Barry Sheerman, in April 2008 I see the John Clare Trust. One contributor to that was Vincent Tchenquiz. If he was there it is very interesting considering some of the publicity his companies are attracting recently. See carlex dot org dot uk.

... outgoing Chair of the Council of Europe's Sub-committee on Health Wolfgang Wodarg said that his panel's investigation into the 2009 swine flu outbreak has found that the pandemic was a fake hoax manufactured by pharmaceutical companies in league with the WHO to make vast profits while endangering public health.

'Twas all made up by those who stood to gain from the panic buying of useless junk. Ring any bells?

Lew-How is it racism to recognise when someone of your own race does well,Why not reward black kids for doing well?or brown n yellow and white kids....get organising if it bothers you that much , easier to sit there pissing and whining and resenting though is it not...

I find white history repeated daily on the Discovery channel,thats DAILY not 1 month a year....Captain Cook the last programme I watched very interesing!...also see Jeremy Kyle for contemporary White culture..hahahah.

To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is it's justice; that is its morality.